A VIZAGAPATAM IVORY SEWING-BOX

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A VIZAGAPATAM IVORY SEWING-BOX
Early 19th Century
In the form of a house, the hinged roof with foliate border, enclosing a previously fitted interior, the front and sides depicting windows, doors, a garden fence and trees, the right side with small drawer in the base, lacking the chimney, minor losses to the veneer, containing several loose partitions
6 in. (15 cm.) high; 7 in. (18 cm.) wide; 4½ in. (11.5 cm.) deep

Sale room notice

Please note that because this lot is made of ivory it will require a CITES export certificate prior to leaving the UK. Such export certificates are usually a formality for ivory objects made before 1947.

Lot Essay

This sewing-box pattern, fashioned like a Calcutta house, was popular around l800 and was executed under the direction of the Dutch and East India Companies at Vizagapatam, Andhra State on the Coromandel coast for retail in Madras and Calcutta (A.K.H. Jaffer, 'The Furniture Trade in early Colonial India', Oriental Art, Vol. XV1, no. 1, Spring l995, p. 12-13). Similar ones, featuring slight variations, were sold from the Prescott Collection, Christie's New York, 31 January l98l, lot 56 and by Lionel Stopford Sackville Esq., Drayton House, Northamptonshire, in these Rooms, 5 July l990, lot 108.

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